The nine current athletic directors in the ACC met in Greensboro, N.C. to discuss schedule plans in basketball and football for the 11-team conference when it expands in 2004. Athletic directors from Virginia Tech and Miami, the two future members of the ACC, were absent from the meeting.
Currently in ACC basketball, each school plays every other ACC team twice, in a home-and-away series.This will most likely end when the 11-team league forms in June.
To keep the current home-and-away series format when expansion occurs, ACC teams would have to play 20-game conference schedules, limiting the amount of non-conference games.
The league's basketball coaches, however, favor keeping the 16-game conference schedule, which allows for flexibility in scheduling non-conference games.This would limit ACC teams to playing some conference opponents only once per season.
In ACC football, where each team plays the other once a year, the idea of separating the league into five- and six-team divisions was discussed.
The ACC has petitioned the NCAA to permit leagues with 10 teams or more to hold a conference title game. Current NCAA rules require a 12-team league for a postseason game.
Final votes on scheduling could come at the end of month when the league meets in Charlottesville.
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